
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Daly, NJ 
A1  - Steele, LP 
A1  - Stimson, VR 
T1  - The role of t-butyl chloride as an intermediate in the hydrogen chloride catalysed decomposition of t-butyl isopropyl ether
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 1973
VL  - 26
IS  - 4
SP  - 767
EP  - 773
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9730767 
N2  - The possible formation of t-butyl chloride as an intermediate in the hydrogen chloride catalysed decomposition of t-butyl isopropyl ether according to the reactions is examined. Rates for t-butyl chloride decomposition and for the overall catalysed reaction are measured at 311°C and both a fourth-order Runge-Kutta method and Hamming's modified predictor-corrector method of numerical integration are used in computing the pressure-time curves due to the assumed reaction model using experi- mental values for k , and various assumed values for k2. It is found that no values for k2 can be found which generate the experimental curves and it is concluded that t-butyl chloride is not an intermediate of the reaction. If the hydrogen chloride catalysed decomposition of t-butyl isopropyl ether is typical of the family of catalysed decompo- sitions then alkyl halides generally have no role as intermediates. 
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